Lector is a writing environment with read-aloud built in. Write your draft, then hear it sentence by sentence. The voice catches what the eye skips over. Completely local — no cloud, no subscription.
Every writer knows the feeling. You read a paragraph three times and it looks fine. Then you hear it read aloud and immediately catch the sentence that runs too long, the word that appears twice in four lines, the transition that doesn’t quite land.
That’s not a grammar problem. It’s a prose problem. And the eye misses it because the brain already knows what you meant to say.
Hearing your writing is different. The voice doesn’t know what you intended. It reads what’s actually there.
Lector puts the read-aloud function inside the writing environment itself. No copying text into another application, no browser tabs, no switching tools mid-edit. You write, you listen, you revise — all in the same place.
Follow every word as Lector reads. Click anywhere to jump to that point. No separate app required — the read-aloud is built into the same surface where you write.
WYSIWYG mode renders formatting as you type. Raw Markdown available for those who want it. Toggle between them without losing your place. Nothing else on screen.
Record thirty seconds of audio. Lector builds a voice profile from it using F5-TTS. After that, every read-aloud session uses your own voice — or a voice familiar to you. Built once, yours permanently.
No cloud processing. No account required. No internet connection needed after setup. Your drafts and your voice stay on your computer, under your control.
The voice catches what the eye skips over.
You already know how to edit. Lector gives you a second pass through a different sense. Most writers who use read-aloud tools never go back to editing in silence.
Lector is currently in development. Join the waitlist to be notified at launch and lock in the $29 price.
Join the waitlist and we’ll notify you the moment Lector is ready. No drip campaigns. No newsletters. One email: it’s ready.
We’ll be in touch when Lector launches.
Open source software
Lector is a commercial product built on open source software. We gratefully acknowledge the following projects and their contributors.